Weird timezone issue with pytz

问题

>>> import pytz
>>> pytz.timezone(\'Asia/Hong_Kong\')
<DstTzInfo \'Asia/Hong_Kong\' LMT+7:37:00 STD>

A seven hour and 37 minute offset? This is a little strange, does anyone experience the same issue?

In fact I\'m getting different behavior between

import pytz
from datetime import datetime
hk = pytz.timezone(\'Asia/Hong_Kong\')

dt1 = datetime(2012,1,1,tzinfo=hk)
dt2 = hk.localize(datetime(2012,1,1))
if dt1 > dt2:
   print \"Why?\"

回答1:

Time zones and offsets change over the years. The default zone name and offset delivered when pytz creates a timezone object are the earliest ones available for that zone, and sometimes they can seem kind of strange. When you use localize to attach the zone to a date, the proper zone name and offset are substituted. Simply using the datetime constructor to attach the zone to the date doesn't allow it to adjust properly.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11473721/weird-timezone-issue-with-pytz